If you'll recall, last week's Wrap Up ended on a Cliffs of Insanity cliffhanger. My laptop died and I COULDN'T EVEN! As much as I tried to even, it was physically impossible to even. But now all is right with the realm. Back to business.

Okay, so this Wrap Up is going to be filled with ALL THE SPECULATION. Way more than usual. A Specu-palooza. A Guessofest. A Shrug-o-thon. The two major stories this week happened outside the ring - first with Punk breaking his almost year-long silence about the reasons he left on a two hour podcast that dropped Thanksgiving morning (he doesn't have family, why should he give a f***?). And then last night Vince McMahon's fireside chat with Stone Cold on the WWE Network.

Now look, there are beefs in wrestling all the time. Usually Konnan's on some show saying some s*** about some guy. Or Sean Waltman's claiming this or that. Or some former WWE guys who aren't employed by anyone right now talk garbage about Cena. Or Vince Russo is mouth-farting all over TNA. It's nothing new, but there's a lot more of it now thanks to the podcast world. And it's something that's easy to get all tangled up in if you like gossip and dirt and muck and mire. It's all fine. But given that all of these folks are performers at heart, you do always wonder how much of it is for the benefit of some career move they anticipate coming their way. Or how much of it is their character coming through under the guise of a shoot. How much is real, basically.

So because of that I don't usually pay attention to much of it. But the Punk/Vince stuff is too big to ignore. We've been wanting Punk to talk about his reasons for leaving for a long time (well, those of us who haven't turned on him during the wait because he's made us wait) and Punk's long convo with Colt Cabana instantly made us more curious about the Vince podcast, which was announced before Punk dropped his pod-bomb.

Basically, RAW (and any other actually TV show I might cover on here) is taking a severe back seat this week because A LOT got said that we need to sift through. Sift through together. This will be a team activity. I got so many tweets last Thursday morning asking if I'd listened to Punk (I hadn't, it took me a couple days to get through it due to other holiday related obligations) and asking me what I thought of it that it made me realize that there were several camps out there, fan-wise.

Bottom line, you either hated Punk because he's a selfish dick or you support Punk because he stood up to bad writing, booking, and poor treatment. And those decisions all seemed to be made before Punk even spoke on the podcast. There were already separate "Punk's a Hero" and "Punk's a Quitter" camps. And those two opinions basically shaped how one heard/took in the podcast.

And then there were those who were sort of new to the whole idea of backstage politics and creative struggles within the wrestling industry. Fans who'd never heard, fully, about the way things can often go down with regards to broken promises and injuries. And so for them, Punk's entire podcast cast this giant storm cloud over the WWE - perhaps for the first time.

So, last night's RAW. Let's skim over it quick. Cena came out to more or less squash the Anonymous GM angle right at the start - relegating it only to booking a few matches even though he'd clearly closed the lid. HE CLOSED THE LID!!! Maybe he should have done what Edge did.

That did the trick. You have to destroy its cursed corporeal form so that it remains vanquished for a few years. Such was scrawled in the ancient Tome of G'eneral Mana'gharrr.

Anyhow, Cena gently, daintily shutting the lid didn't stop Skynet, who supposedly only had booking powers on RAW, from adding a stipulation to Cena and Rollins' TLC match. Why not just go ahead and make the WWE World Championship match at 'Mania 2 out of 3 falls while we're at it? This RAW GM MacBook can twist the future up like a balloon animal.

Miz and Mizdow are now feuding with the Usos, with a smarmy Naomi "casting call" angle seemingly in the works. Which will probably allow Team Boo!/Yay! to keep their gold after Jimmy loses his temper and makes a mistake. He already got super heated last night and clobbered Miz at ringside.